Doug Pensinger wrote:
Colin Powell's speech to the U.N., a watershed in the
drumbeat to war,
spends all but a few minutes presenting evidence for WMDs. Hussein's
brutality is almost an afterthought:
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm. In fact the Bush
administration
Bryon Daly wrote:
In any case, Dan M. mentioned a few, but I will add one: The
misperception
of the current state of affairs in Iraq as a complete
shambles. The news
regularly portrays it as such. Recently, Dan Rather (of CBS
news) remarked
after a story from a reporter about how
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 11:00 am, ritu wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
I am not assuming that only the clueless/duped were pro-war. What I
*am*
assuming is that a vast majority of the pro-war group was *not*
well-informed.
I know many well-informed
pro-war people
who still believe it was for
Sorry this is a *long* reply, as I've tried to include links to back
up some of what I say, and have included excerpts of some relevant
parts...
From: ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bryon Daly wrote:
Well, I am not sure that this is a misperception. Neither is the US
State department, at least not going
ritu wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
I don't think there was ever as much concensus as you indicate.
Well, I seem to have been wrong about the media at least. Again, I could
be wrong here but I seem to recall polls which indicated public support
for the war as above 70%.
You would
At 12:56 AM 10/8/03 +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 11:00 am, ritu wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
I am not assuming that only the clueless/duped were pro-war. What I *am*
assuming is that a vast majority of the pro-war group was *not*
well-informed.
I know many
From: ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bryon Daly wrote:
Oh heavens, no. The anti-war crowd enjoys as varied a composition as the
pro-war crowd and there are enough
don't-care-enough-to-check-out-available-facts/lunatics on both the
sides.
However, I really can't think of a single anti-war misperception
Bryon Daly wrote:
Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq War
and surrounding events* that are propagated (or at least not debunked)
by the media, in the same way that Fox News is blamed for the pro-war
misconceptions. Or do you think that the anti-war side has a
Bryon Daly wrote:
Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the
Iraq War and
surrounding events* that are propagated (or at least not
debunked) by the
media, in the same way that Fox News is blamed for the pro-war
misconceptions. Or do you think that the anti-war side
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Bryon Daly wrote:
Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq War
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bryon Daly wrote:
Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq
War
and surrounding events* that are propagated (or at least not
debunked)
by the media, in the same way that Fox
Dan Minette wrote:
What anti war misconceptions are we talking about? I'm sure that there
must be some, but I can't say that I've heard of any in the news or
otherwise.
1) There war would result in an increase in the misery in Iraq. I've seen
on anti-war.com quotes of 100,000
Bryon Daly wrote:
I notice that this survey didn't look for any misperceptions
of the type
that the
more left-leaning media might help propagate, and that far
more democrats
would
be likely to believe...
Well, the topic of the survey was 'Misperceptions, the Media and the
Iraq War'.
ritu wrote:
I'm sure there are many liberal flavoured misperceptions but isn't it
understandable that they would want to focus on the ones which have cost
the US so much money and lives?
Not to mention that these particular misperceptions have been
encouraged by the Bush administration.
From: ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bryon Daly wrote:
I notice that this survey didn't look for any misperceptions
of the type
that the
more left-leaning media might help propagate, and that far
more democrats
would
be likely to believe...
Well, the topic of the survey was 'Misperceptions, the
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